Poison control

Epidemiologist Habibul Ahsan finds arsenic-contaminated drinking water responsible for one-fifth of the deaths in parts of rural Bangladesh.

Spirited away

In China’s Fuzhou region, people make “spirit money” offerings with imitation U.S. currency.

Language duel

The first scholar to seriously study Sanskrit puns and bitextual poems, Sanskritist Yigal Bronner, PhD’99, found that it was a popular literary device until colonial times.

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